Myocardial infarction
Cardiology · CC2
This topic appears in the RCEM clinical syllabus. Start with a relevant resource below, then use a case or practice activity to test what you have learned.
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Learn
Ep 299 – Which patients with chest pain need a troponin?
Review the decision to investigate possible myocardial infarction with troponin.
Discuss
Assessing acute coronary syndrome
Discuss urgent ECG findings, initial ACS care and the limits of high-sensitivity troponin pathways.
Acute coronary syndrome: initial assessment
Connect the clinical story, ECG and assay-specific troponin pathway while recognising when treatment cannot wait.
Apply it in practice
Choose one thing to try on your next suitable shift, within your role and level of supervision. Discuss what happened and what you would change.
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Systematic review of the Manchester Acute Coronary Scores.
JC: CTCA for cardiac chest pain in the ED. St Emlyn's
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)
Journal club: LoDED and safe early discharge
Appraise the LoDED diagnostic-strategy trial and discuss what would be needed to apply its findings locally.
Your first day in Emergency Medicine
Find out how to get help, hand over unfinished work and make discharge decisions on your first ED shifts.
JC: Are we fully LoDED?
2019 Novel Coronavirus (Wuhan) at St Emlyn's
Risk scores for cardiac chest pain: the first head-to-head comparison!